November 15, 2006
Spending Trends
Bush started off 2005 with "Political Capital" after garnering 51% of the votes cast. He's been burning through this political capital with gusto. Over here, we'd estimated he'd be down to just about half way through and it seems he's really holding his own now at a little over 30%. What gives? Time to either start another conflict or go on the attack against citizens again.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush's popularity has dipped to 35 percent, according to a new CNN poll, with 41 percent of likely voters saying their disapproval of his performance will affect their vote in Tuesday's elections for control of Congress.
Sixty-one percent of the 1,008 adult Americans who responded to the Opinion Research Corp. poll said they disapproved of the way Bush is handling his job as president, according to the survey. The poll was conducted by telephone Friday through Sunday.
